The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Arts and Entertainment The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Arts and Entertainment
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Arts and Entertainment "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Arts and Entertainment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Arts and Entertainment
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Arts and Entertainment The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Arts and Entertainment
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Arts and Entertainment "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Arts and Entertainment
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Arts and Entertainment "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Arts and Entertainment Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Arts and Entertainment
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Arts and Entertainment Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
